Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.